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Only one partition...

ayeying said:
Delete the partition.

Repair the disk (After booting off from another drive or disk)

Repartition the drive.

Install.

I had this issue before and it was a disk corruption.
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I'm not sure what you meant by repairing the disk after booting off from another drive or disk but I just deleted my partition by going into bootcamp. Then I went to disk utility and Repaired the disk permissions, Verified the disk permissions, and verified the disk.



Then I repartitioned by going into bootcamp and I tried to install Windows again but with no success.
 
kevinoh33 said:
I'm not sure what you meant by repairing the disk after booting off from another drive or disk but I just deleted my partition by going into bootcamp.
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Disk Utility does more if you are not booted to the drive you are checking. You can boot from your install disc or another OS X install (e.g. an external drive).

Have you contacted Apple support yet?

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balamw said:
Disk Utility does more if you are not booted to the drive you are checking. You can boot from your install disc or another OS X install (e.g. an external drive).

Have you contacted Apple support yet?

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I used Disk utility in my OSX disk to repair the disk, but it's still not working!

I haven't contacted apple yet but I'm thinking about going to a genius bar or something. But I really want to get this to work without their help.
 
Allow me to reiterate:

balamw said:
Personally, I'd be tempted to start from scratch, including OS X since you don't seem to have much on the box yet. If you have an external HDD use SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your OS X disk to that. Boot from the external and completely wipe out the partitions on the internal drive. then use SD/CCC to bring back the clone image you created.
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Or just install OS X from scratch on the wiped clean drive.

Something is clearly wrong with your partition table, and we don't seem to be able to find it, so your only option is to start fresh.

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I tried that but it didn't work, but I guess I could try again. Can you tell me exactly what to do?
 
kevinoh33 said:
I'm not sure what you meant by repairing the disk after booting off from another drive or disk but I just deleted my partition by going into bootcamp. Then I went to disk utility and Repaired the disk permissions, Verified the disk permissions, and verified the disk.



Then I repartitioned by going into bootcamp and I tried to install Windows again but with no success.
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See that little button that's grayed out called "Repair Disk"? You need to boot off the Restore Disk or off another partition with OSX to use that button.
 
ayeying said:
See that little button that's grayed out called "Repair Disk"? You need to boot off the Restore Disk or off another partition with OSX to use that button.
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I used disk utility on the OSX CD and I pressed Repair disk but still the partition won't show up
 
kevinoh33 said:
I used disk utility on the OSX CD and I pressed Repair disk but still the partition won't show up
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Do this. Erase the delete the partition for boot camp so everything's back into 1 partition.

Boot from the disk, Repair Disk

Reboot back into OSX, create partition, leave it as FAT

Repair Disk again

It should show up now.
 
ayeying said:
Do this. Erase the delete the partition for boot camp so everything's back into 1 partition.

Boot from the disk, Repair Disk

Reboot back into OSX, create partition, leave it as FAT

Repair Disk again

It should show up now.
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I tried repairing the disk for the 2nd time in OSX but I couldn't press it. I tried again anyways but it didn't work...
 
kevinoh33 Did you see a 200 MB partition when you were looking at the partitions while booted from the OS X disc?

This is something that bugs me about Disk Utility, it hides the 200 MB EFI partition from you at least while you are booted to the drive in OS X.

My hunch is that something is inherently wrong with our GPT partition table so the MBR version is confused. Which is why I have been trying to get to you to completely remove all partitions from the disc and start fresh.

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balamw said:
kevinoh33 Did you see a 200 MB partition when you were looking at the partitions while booted from the OS X disc?

This is something that bugs me about Disk Utility, it hides the 200 MB EFI partition from you at least while you are booted to the drive in OS X.

My hunch is that something is inherently wrong with our GPT partition table so the MBR version is confused. Which is why I have been trying to get to you to completely remove all partitions from the disc and start fresh.

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Is the EFI partition the Macintosh partition? And I think I tried it fresh before because I did something wrong in Bootcamp last time and I had to reinstall OSX and everything.

But If You tell me exactly what to do, I'll try again.
 
kevinoh33 said:
Is the EFI partition the Macintosh partition? And I think I tried it fresh before because I did something wrong in Bootcamp last time and I had to reinstall OSX and everything.

But If You tell me exactly what to do, I'll try again.
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No, the EFI partition is a separate, small 200 MB FAT partition that is used for firmware updates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_System_partition

Apple hides it from the user in Disk Utility sometimes, which makes it hard to do what I want you do to. Eliminate all partitions and start afresh.

It's not something I really want to experiment with on any of my machines, so I can't really give you step by step instructions.

Still not ready to contact Apple?

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has anyone found a solution to this problem? ive had boot camp installed before on a previous mac of mine so i have an idea of what im doing (not like its a complicated process anyways). i have a new mbp and a buddy of mine has a new imac. after reminiscing about flight sim the other day we decided we were going to do boot camp and use windows xp pro. running in to this same problem on both computers... I have tried repairing disks, etc like was being suggested previously.
thanks all
 
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